Masocriticism
By: Paul Mann.
Series: The SUNY series in postmodern culture
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Criticism.; Literature, Modern -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; Postmodernism (Literature)
Description: These essays on literary theory, philosophy, and cultural criticism describe, in their form and content, the end of criticism, even while performing the endlessness of that endgame. In a sense, the book deconstructs all forms of critique and criticism, including deconstruction, and including its own self.

That the book is so painfully aware of the futility of its own enterprise, even while pursuing it relentlessly and with such critical rigor, is what makes this a book of masocriticism as well as about masocriticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-308) and index.